Stoma: Blockage

We’ve all felt that moment of panic—a sudden stop in output, a cramping sensation that feels different from gas, and the dreaded swollen stoma.

Here is your guide to spotting, solving, and preventing the dreaded stoma blockage. A blockage (technically a food or mechanical obstruction) happens when something gets stuck where your intestine passes through the abdominal wall. Because your stoma has no nerve endings, you won’t feel pain in the stoma itself—but you will feel it everywhere else. stoma blockage

If you have an ileostomy or colostomy, there is one word that can strike fear into your heart faster than almost any other: Blockage. We’ve all felt that moment of panic—a sudden